Chinese Medicine Notes

A Messy Pulse

Posted on January 12, 2009 by YaelNo Comments

I started studying the Stems and Branches this year.
I’ve been waiting to study S&B for 6 years now, and am very excited to finally dive into the world of deep energies, stems, branches and unlike Qi.
I even find the hexagrams to be quite interesting!
This course of course makes all that I heard from Prof. Heiner Fruehauf more sense.
It’s not that Heiner wasn’t clear enough. It’s all me- I didn’t know enough of the basics to fully understand him.
But I’m happy to say- I’m catching up.

Taking the pulse is like riding a bike
On class, last Tuesday, we were talking about the pulse.
It’s not boring, but the amount of information that pulse classes give you can really stagnate your brain.
I always felt some what “stuffed” after each pulse class during my 4 years in school, mainly because the teachers always use many words to convey a certain quality of the pulse.
I don’t blame them of course, it’s quite difficult to teach anything that has to do with the pulse.